Modern Living: Mirror, Mirror

A few times every century, a great beauty is born. I am not one of them.
But what nature skipped, I suppliedso much so that sometimes 1 cannot
remember what is real and what is fake.

Princess Luciana Pignatelli,

The Beautiful People's Beauty Book

It is not that the princess has a weak memory: even an IBM super
multiprocessor system would be hard put to keep track of the surgical,
spiritual, chemical and cosmetic chicanery credited with transforming
her from what she calls "a lump" of a young girl into the
"internationally renowned beauty" of...